Learn FeatPost-0.8.6 from the following three files in the "doc" directory: 
  "featpostmanual.pdf" gathers all that I ever wrote about FeatPost;
  "featpostbeamer.pdf" is a presentation version of the above manual;
  "Exemplifier.ps.bz2" gathers a very big set of MetaPost figures.
Perhaps, it may be better for you to start with plain MetaPost and (La)TeX: 
  "metapostpropaganda.pdf" is a wide-range tutorial.
  (the "metapostpropagandafiles" subdirectory contains additional examples)
2012/APR/14                                                     L. Nobre G.